[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 15, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: June 15, 1994]
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         CLINTON PLAN PERPETUATES THE SYSTEM, ADDS MORE WELFARE

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, yesterday after waiting 17 long months, 
President Clinton finally unveiled his so-called welfare reform 
proposal. Remember 1992 when candidate Clinton promised to end welfare 
as we know it. Well his plan ends reform as we know it. The President's 
solution is to replace welfare with more welfare.
  The President's plan expands entitlements and handouts, and avoids 
tackling the issues of illegitimacy.
  Less people would be required to work for their benefits under the 
Clinton plan than under existing laws. Furthermore, since Clinton 
exempts anyone who is older than 23 from the work requirement, 80 
percent of current welfare recipients would be off the hook. Clearly, 
his plan fails to provide a great majority of the people on welfare the 
much needed incentive for them to lift themselves out of poverty.
  Instead of ending welfare as we know it, the President has decided to 
pour another $9.3 billion into an already failed system. His plan 
actually perpetuates the very system the American public has 
overwhelmingly denounced.

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